1919
24471
TELEGRAM
TO BELOBORODOV, PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOR AND DEFENSE

Kozlov
To the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front
for immediate transmission to the Headquarters of the Ninth Army
To Beloborodov—Plenipotentiary of the Council of Labor and Defense
or at his place of location
May 6, 1919

I am extremely surprised that in your second telegram there is not a word about the progress of the matter entrusted to you*. Acceleration is absolutely necessary. Hurry and press everyone. Report in more detail.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

23248
TELEGRAM
TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PETROGRAD SOVIET

May 7, 1919

Drezen, representative of the Central Supply Administration** in Petrograd, has received an assignment, on the basis of a decision of the Council of Labor and Defense, to inspect the warehouses of all departments and to utilize the military property contained therein. Render him every possible assistance and compel the matter to be carried out more energetically; oversee precise implementation following the example of Moscow***.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

approving appropriations for salaries according to the vouchers submitted without presentation of: 1) documentation of years of service, 2) in cases of conscription age, obligatory attachment to the voucher of a certificate confirming reporting for military service." These measures, in the author's opinion, could have led to the release of significant numbers of office workers who could be directed into the army or to serve its needs.

* The reference is to the suppression of the White Guard Cossack uprising on the Don. See the present collection, pp. 121, 122.
** Central Supply Administration of the Red Army.
*** Published according to the original signed by V. I. Lenin. The words "following the example of Moscow" are written in his handwriting.

LENIN COLLECTION
4143
TELEGRAM
FROM V. I. LENIN AND P. V. STALIN
TO THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS OF UKRAINE

Kiev
May 8, 1919

The Central Committee of the Party, having discussed the critical situation in the Donbass and on the Manych, which borders on catastrophe, urgently proposes that the Kiev Council of Defense strain all its forces to accelerate and intensify military aid to the Donbass, to appoint a number of the best comrades for unceasing daily supervision of the fulfillment of this, and especially for immediate and total mobilization of workers in Odessa, Ekaterinoslav, Nikolaev, Kharkov, and Sevastopol to send reinforcements to the Southern Front, finally to establish personal responsibility of Podvoisky and Antonov for the Makhno group. Understand that without the rapid capture of Rostov the death of the revolution is inevitable.

On behalf of the Central Committee
Lenin. Stalin

24480
ON THE TRANSPORTATION OF CHILDREN TO SUMMER COLONIES

May 12, 1919

At the present time the transportation of children from the northern provinces to the south has begun for placement during the summer in children's colonies. The entire organization of dispatching children to their destinations is placed under the responsibility of the Central Administration for Prisoners of War and Refugees*. Transportation is carried out as far as possible by sanitary trains under the direction of the Chief Sanitary Administration. Since the number of sanitary trains will be provided in limited quantity, it is necessary to adopt measures for the most rational utilization of sanitary trains. Therefore, I urgently request that measures be adopted to ensure that sanitary trains, after unloading, are immediately returned to their home stations to undertake the next runs, and that empty cars be...

* Central Administration for Prisoners of War and Refugees.